Posted on 08/30/2009 11:16:08 AM PDT by foutsc
Why is John Holdren a perfect progressive? Because he believes in grand government schemes cooked up and implemented by cognoscenti rather than letting people make their own decisions. Secondly, he has no regard for the constitution, or he is purposely stupid about its meaning. This is a dangerous combination Population Bombs and Other Progressive Power Grabs Zombietime has the definitive summary on his population control views, complete with page scans from the book Holdren wrote with the Ehrlichs of "The Population Bomb" fame. If you want to understand the issue completely, along with rebuttals from the Obama camp, go read that article. Chris Mooney at Science Progress mounts a defense of Holdren, but the best he can come up with is that Holdren, in his book, was merely presenting an array or resume of population control methods, not actually advocating any of the abhorrent practices. Read his article then go to Zombietime and decide for yourself. Holdren's Constitutional Ignorance My criticism of this man is aimed at his obvious constitutional ignorance. Here is what Holdren wrote on page 838 of the 1977 Book, Ecoscience: Some people—respected legislators, judges, and lawyers included—have viewed the right to have children as a fundamental and inalienable right. Yet neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce. Where the society has a “compelling, subordinating interest” in regulating population size, the right of the individual may be curtailed. The Constitution is not an exhaustive list of our rights. It is a contract between the people, the individual states, and the federal government that was set up to serve them. Consider the 10th Amendment: Individual rights. Individual rights must be balanced against the power of the government to control human reproduction.
How did congress let this constitutionally ignorant man assume an executive branch position? No right to reproduce in the constitution? Well, there's no right to smoke cigarettes, write a book or get an abortion in there, either.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.Holdren and his ilk have is bass-ackwards
Our rights come from God, not the government. Holdren, good progressive that he is, has it exactly backwards. In his worldview, Government is all-powerful and the rights of the people are limited.
WRONG!
The Constitution limits the powers of government to what is stated in the document and acknowledges that the rights of individuals can only be circumscribed in specific instances. For a good, short commentary on this amendment, see Findlaw.
Progressives: Wrong on Eugenics, Wrong on Population Predictions, Wrong on Global Warming
That these neo-Malthusians were oh so wrong about the "population bomb," that was supposed to have killed millions by now, should give us pause as we consider the hysterical global warming claims. Predictive science is only as good as the models. And global warming advocates, like the overpopulation screamers before them, are working off of simplistic and highly speculative models with more gaps than data.Also, ask Europe, Russia and China how population control is working out. A preponderance of old people with no one to care for them, and in Europe's case, people from other parts of the world come in to fill the vacuum, fundamentally changing the continent's culture.
This is why grand progressive schemes should always be viewed with skepticism.
Science Progress - Chris Mooney
This is why we have the 2nd Amendment. It is the reset button for the Constitution.
Page 235 of Human Ecology Problems and Solutions -
“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being.”
Both Ecoscience and Human Ecology have notable quotes. I actually bought “Human Ecology”.
Hard to believe some people can be so sick, isn’t it?
That page 235 quote is quite meaty. It leads to statements we can make like “Obama doesn’t think babies are people. No, wait, that’s Obama’s Science Czar that doesn’t think that babies are people.” That is a crazy statement, that even hardcore leftists will have a lot of trouble defending.
And fun can be had trying to guess what kind of things Obama (wait, Obama’s Science Czar) thinks are “essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food”.
Many conservative comedy skits can come from this one sentence.
In NYC, some parents today are very concerned about getting their kids into the “right” preschools, kindergarten, grade school. But, now it’s even more important, because certain kindergartens in NYC provide “essential early socializing experiences” and others don’t. And parents who earlier wanted their kids to get a good education, now want their kids to be considered “human beings”
“I’m sorry sir, your child did not go to one of the following schools, Dalton, Collegiate, Trinity, Spence, Chapin, Brearley, Horace Mann, and is, unfortunately, not yet considered a human being.”
I’m not sure that’s actually funny, but excellent funny people can use that sentence to paint Holdren and the whole Obama adminstration as comically out of touch with normal average Americans.
We’re not even through year one of Obamanation. Wait until these evil czars great their feet grounded and begin their tasks. It’s going to get really ugly in this country. Obama knows he has only three more years to engineer a Chavez type presidency.
He knows he probably only has 1 year and a couple months until the R’s take a bunch of seats and make his job a lot harder.
After Clinton’s health care plan failed to pass in 1994, he stopped trying to pass legislation that most people hated.
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